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Print File Size - Acrobat Pro 9.3.2

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2010-04-15 16:25:14
MalcolmM
Registered: Apr 15 2010
Posts: 3

I work in Construction and use Acrobat Pro mainly for printing of Plans and the like with the ability to cut and extract protions of these drawings. I also create files from other applications to enable them to be sent via email to my subcontractors and clients.
When printing documents the print file size becomes very large - One example I have a file that was sent to me which is 6.18MB when I print it becomes 65MB. This is print as image and 300 dpi. If i deseklect print as image it becomes 137MB. What am I doing wrong. This obviously creates long printing times when these files are sent to our Sharp MX2700N as either A4 or A3 prints.

Malcolm M

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-04-19 05:16:51
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hitanand
Registered: Nov 4 2009
Posts: 29
Can you please share one of the documents with which you are facing this problem.
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2011-02-21 18:11:10
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pjh0
Registered: Feb 21 2011
Posts: 1
I've had a similar experience, though with different versions....

In response to a prompt from Adobe Reader today, I "upgraded" to Reader X from Reader 9.something.something. When I printed a pdf from a website I print from daily, the output file took half an hour to print when it normally prints in less than a minute. When everything else (Browser, Printer Driver, etc.) checked out, I uninstalled Reader X and installed Reader 9.4.2 from the Adobe website. At this point I realized that the printing delay with Reader X was because the size of the print file had grown from 543 KB with Reader 9 to 41.1 MB with Reader X, from the same source pdf!

I run Windows XP SP3 and browse using Firefox 3.6.13.
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